Personal Health
A way to stop the spread of COVID droplets from your nose/mouth to others.
What is wearing a face mask?
Best practice to stop the spread of COVID
What is social distancing?
Process for someone who has a positive COVID test to protect others
What is isolation?
Started a global pandemic in 2020
What is COVID-19 (commonly referred to as coronavirus)?
A person that feels regular during infection
What is an asymptomatic person/infection?
A way to keep bacteria and viruses from getting in your system? (hint important before eating)
What is washing your hands with soap and warm water?
When a community gains resistance to the spread of an infection
What is herd immunity?
A person who has had 15 minutes of exposure within 6 feet and without a mask to someone with COVID
What is a close contact?
The time between contracting a disease and infection (usually around 2 days for COVID but can be up to 14)
What is incubation period?
A person that feels ill during infection
A way to kill COVID off surfaces
Why to use disinfectant wipes?
The safest way to create herd immunity
What is vaccination of the population?
Procedure for a proximate contact (in same room for extended time but out of 6 feet)
What is enter "precautionary quarantine", monitor symptoms and obtain a COVID test
The period of time an infected person can pass the disease to others (for COVID this is around 10 days but can be up to 20)
What is infectious period?
Where I can go to find more information or help
What is the CDC website or my county health department?
Procedure if you feel sick
Why would you isolate yourself as well as possible (do not attend any event!) and get a COVID test ASAP?
Where/when it is safe to have gatherings
When you are outdoors with a group of vaccinated individuals? (or indoors with a small group of vaccinated individuals)
Duration of isolation and duration of quarantine
Isolation: What is 10 days after a positive test and at least 24 hours after last symptoms?
Quarantine: What is 14 days or 10 days with a negative test on day 10?
Most common symptoms (need at least 3)
What are fatigue, fever/chills, cough, muscle aches, diarrhea/vomiting, loss of taste/smell, headache?
Most common demographic infected with COVID-19 in Wisconsin recently (March-May 2021)
What is the age group under 18 years old? (per childrenswi.org a pediatric organization)
Procedure if you have contact with a positive COVID test
Why would you report it, try to get a COVID test, and follow mandatory quarantine procedures? (call county health for assistance)
At this point you are considered fully vaccinated
When is 2 weeks after J and J shot or 2 weeks after second dose of Moderna or Pfizer?
Role/importance of contact tracing
What is a strategy to disrupt the spread and transmission of COVID-19 or other diseases? What is protect the community from disease?
The safe and effective vaccines available in the US for COVID-19
What are Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna?
Sometimes it takes 2 exposures to a virus to build up sufficient antibodies to fight off future infections (think about what you know about the vaccines)